Because they recognize their own kind.
Florida man will help you eat the body.
I have an outsider looking in view of construction via insurance and ensuing risk/bonding et cetera, but my understanding is that the industry is structured to flow from:
Owner (the money commissioning a project) to:
Fairly evenly on a flowchart: Design (Architects) & General Contractors (putting the blue prints together within the Owner budget, and home to Project Managers, Superintendents et cetera) to
Specialty Contractors (labor such as welding, electricians, plumbers et cetera though these can sometimes be in house employees at General Contractor companies).
Itās my understanding construction management degrees put people in line for management roles (budget, project scope and personnel at General Contractors and where applicable at specialty contractors).
Learning a trade would be aligned with more of a boots on the ground job, doing the work. So it just depends on what he wants out of the experience.
But Iām by no means an expert so take my comments with a grain of salt.
Getting this alert while lifting. A phone or a vehicle, the only thing worse than having something that nags is knowing that I paid for it.
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Iām sorry - I canāt hear youā¦
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I agreed to watch a neighbors house & vehicle while theyāre away.
Everything they have beeps and tells you things. Going in or out, locked or unlocked, and the vehicle is like a nagging nut case.
It drives me fucking insane. I hate beepy little annoying devices. It makes me strongly question the sanity of anybody who buys these types of things.
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Classic move triggered me this morning. Iām on the road so going to my local PF. Got in at 5:15AM this morning and this older dude (probably my age) grabbed the last Smith Machine - there are four of them - so I sat and waited since Iām doing SS, pretty much no other choice.
He grabs the bench claiming the machine and spends about ten minutes drinking aminos, getting his headphones set up, etc . . .then puts the bar all the way down and does pushups - raises it and does fat man pull ups, then takes a five minute break.
Repeat of the same.
Finally does one set of close grip BP and takes a break.
Then more PUās and Fat Man Pullups. Hogged the rack for at least thirty minutes to do three sets of close grip bench.
The rack next to him opened after about ten minutes so I didnāt have to wait that long, but there were three of us waiting and watching that shit show.
Vince Gironda would have thrown his ass out, lol
i hate people like that
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Dude probably wonders why his āprogramā isnāt working.
Worseā¦he believes it is working.
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BS bureaucratic trainings
the ones my uni uses now include minimum times
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People not interested in physical culture being pushy about food and alcohol.
I donāt pressure you guys to exercise or eat my way. Screw off with being pushy about whatever food you brought to the office, or getting me to drink. Asking once is being nice and trying to include me; cool. Anything past that is obnoxious.
Isnāt it funny that youāll get compliments from general society about your degree of muscle mass, but little respect for what it takes to achieve that?
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Most recently I have been asked a lot how I put on my size. People donāt like the answer of 19 years of (fairly) consistent training.
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Or itās working for his goals just fine. Not everyone has the goal of getting big and strong. Plenty of people use the gym to simply maintain current strength/size, general fitness, to help treat medical issues like arthritis or osteoporosis, and to get the body moving for general mental health. Especially at a planet fitness.
The guy is at the right gym to do his low intensity workout. Itās like making fun of someone in the right lane going slow on the freeway.
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Perhaps; anything is possible, but some things are more likely than others.
Noone is making fun of them. Simply pointing out the lack of awareness and established protocols.
More like in the right lane at night without the lights on while driving at half the posted limit.
Thatās what my buddy told me, but he was refering to his Filipino wife.
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Invite them to gym tomorrow and watch them shut up.
Oh shit. While my cousin was stationed there he loved those women so much he married 2 of them (not at the same time). He is single now. It might have been him.
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Regardless, using one lifting machine for 30 minutes is bad gym etiquette.
I used to go to a Crunch fitness which actually has decent lifting platforms. However, people would camp at a rack (limited number at an oversold gym) for over an hour and not let others work in. Also had a guy who would repeatedly plop a towel over the single smith machine bar then wander off for half hour at gym open. I alerted the staff because i wanted to use it and he wasnāt actively around. They told me to yank his towel off and go ahead if he was gone for more than 5 minutes.
It is SOP to run SS (or countless other programs) while using a rack/smith machine for 30 or more minutes.
It certainly is.
However, jacking around on your phone, or in the head, at the fountain, etc. and taking 10 minutes between sets is not āusingā the equipment. This is simply shit man, you should have learned it in kindergarten.
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